Canada's C/R/T/C may soon be censoring online content

[crazed 9.6]

I heard all this on the late radio show last night, during my long dark drive home.
It genuinely scared the heck out of me !

I had earlier that day heard our Prime Minister say on live TV that our Canadian Civil rights are on hold for now, he has no time to address such things at the moment.


C/P
April 29, 2021

Last week at the Standing Committee reading of Bill C-10, “An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act”, the federal government proposed and passed an amendment that would make all user generated audiovisual content on online platforms subject to the regulatory powers of the CRTC

Bill C-10 had previously included an exception in clause 4(1), which excluded user-generated content posted to such services from the Act.
This was removed from the Bill at the last minute.

“Bill C-10 would empower the CRTC to regulate Canadian citizens posts to the Internet under broadcast regulations in Canada.”
“Tideos, podcasts, pictures and memes that would come under CRTC regulation under the revised Bill.

It can be argued that these are not ‘programs’ being ‘broadcast’... but they’re the individual expressions of people in Canada.
If passed, this Bill will be giving the CRTC any powers to limit, censor, or manipulate the terms of our freedom of expression.

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CRTC
Canadian Radio/television & Telecommunications Commission
A federal institution that is part of the Canadian Heritage portfolio.
They operate at 'arm’s length' from the Government of Canada and regulate and supervise broadcasting and telecommunications in the public interest.

In other words, if the content is not in the Canadian Governments best interest then it is not allowed.
We Canadians have been used to this for all our lives it seems. We were always supplied with only what the government wanted us to see or hear. If the CRTC did not like it then it was not allowed in Canada, simple as that.
Private Satellite Systems soon started biting into that control... and then, and then, and THEN.... along came the internet and things like Chat sites and Podcsts and Tweeter and Facebook and etc, etc.

The CRTC had no control on any of that..... till now !